On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 01:32:17PM -0000, Greg wrote:
I think the key word here is *natural* (the machine's general-purpose integer registers, the ones used for addresses and integer arithmetic, not the specialized, vector register widths).
...assuming that addresses and integers use the same registers and are the same width...which isn't/wasn't always the case. Again, this is just massaging the definition to get a desired result rather than having a clear concept that maps universally to actual hardware.